Jumanji is an iconic film starring Robin Williams. The board game of the same name makes life difficult for the protagonists, but the game is actually not that difficult and could be finished in 5 minutes. You should have just read the rules.
What is Jumanji? This is about the board game that appeared in the 1995 film with Robin Williams. The video game from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level is irrelevant here. The children Judy and Peter move into the former house of the missing Alan. In this house they find an old dice game. But it is not a simple game, but a curse that brings various obstacles in the game to life.
The hardest part of Jumanji is not playing the game, but surviving the animals and natural disasters that materialize throughout the game. However, as Randy Meeks of Sensacine points out, you can finish Jumanji in a matter of minutes.
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Just try to roll the dice as quickly as possible
In his article, Meeks states that the movie’s protagonists should have simply rolled the dice as fast as they could. Instead of running or looking to see what the next obstacle would cause in the real world, each player should have played as fast as possible.
One could argue that the dangers in the real world are deadly, but there are rules for that too that can be circumvented, as user kinyutaka points out on Reddit.
In other words, not everyone has to try to escape from the dangers or find out what dangers are emerging, only the person who just rolled the dice. At the same time, Meeks notes that it is not defined where you play the game and only the person who rolls the dice has to be present at the time. If you had divided up tactically, you could have rolled the dice more efficiently.
However, it must also be stressed that rolling the dice quickly sounds easier than it really is. The threats are dangerous for everyone, including the other players. As you can see from the hunter, the dangers do not disappear if you roll new spaces quickly. Moreover, it is children who are exposed to great danger, not spectators with sober logic.
If you continue the thought experiment, you also have to remember that the demonic game Jumanji cannot be easily outsmarted. As you can see in the later films, it is difficult to destroy the game at all. A big internet star almost had a cameo in the Jumanji sequel: Ninja planned acting debut in Hollywood film – scene was deleted